narrow valley of easy ascent on each hand, having
a small stream running through the bottom. When
the land is to be watered, the stream at the upper
end of the valley is diverted from its natural bed,
and is conducted in narrow channels along each
side of the valley on as high ground as the head
of the stream will admit; and, by placing obstruc-
tions to the current of the streams, in different
parts of the artificial channels, the water continues
to trickle down the sides of the valley, so as plen-
tifully and regularly to water the roots of the
grass, but not in such quantities as to cover the
herbage.

In the course of the day we paid A. S. a visit,
and in that evening came to A. H.'s, another
brother-in-law to J. T. Here I met with one of
the oldest copies of the English Bible I had ever
seen; it was translated by Coverley, at a period
when the sacred volume was not divided into chap-
ters and verses, and both the language and the
type bore evident marks of great antiquity. The
word shoes I noticed was always spelled shoon,
and righteousness was always spelled rightwiseness,
and in many other respects the language was so
very different from what it is at this day, as scarcely,
in many places, to be like the same tongue.

During part of the revolutionary contest, this
friend's house was the head-quarters of General
Stirling, and, sometimes, consultations were held